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by scruple 4y ago
What uC? I'm interested in learning which vendors are shipping rust toolchains for their chips.
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by scruple 4y ago
Yes, from what I recall, from working in retail in highschool and beyond, it's specifically temp work and typically staffed through a temp agency.
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by scruple 4y ago
Fascinating. We may have worked for the same founders at some point, as I have had nearly the exact same experience (I was an engineer at the 2nd startup with a ~0.5% stake (before dilution, of course!) -- the payout was nice but it was no
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by scruple 4y ago
Yeah, but at some point an LP stops being a productive use of time. I prefer wave/block and undulating periodization programs because I never feel like I'm anywhere in the vicinity of failure and I'm always fresh for hard con
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by scruple 4y ago
> most people would get a superb musculature with just cycling/running, squats, deadlifts and bench presses (ignoring pre-existing injuries). FWIW, you just described the essence of the Tactical Barbell system here. I've been u
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by scruple 4y ago
On the stuttering thing, I've recently developed a similar problem. I had a stutter as a child and went through years of speech therapy and for all intents and purposes it was gone for over 3 decades. Now it's back? Not nearly a
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by scruple 4y ago
I've used my network for the last decade+ of work. I cofounded a startup because I developed a relationship with my cofounder in the break room at a former employer. We were in different orgs, we'd have never had the chance to dev
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by scruple 4y ago
A lot like getting the USB plug right the first time but not realizing it. Happens every time.
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by scruple 4y ago
> the event might also be a secret from the direct manager Oftentimes explicitly became managers look like rank-and-file employees to the executives above them just the same way that developers look like rank-and-file workers to their ma
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by scruple 4y ago
The thought that I had to go to the bathroom after waking up certainly, absolutely came from somewhere I can identify.
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by scruple 4y ago
I sympathize with them to some degree. I'd like to think that when I'm their age, I'll be able to walk out of the front door on my own terms. That said, as you correctly point out, obscene is the word of the day. I worked wit
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by scruple 4y ago
Anecdotes, but... A former BigTechCo employer (I quit early 2022) had (~10% of staff) layoffs the other week. At least 3 different engineering VPs and 1 SVP were let go that I know of, including my former manager. None of the orgs or teams
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by scruple 4y ago
Hospital IT systems are infamously horrible at maintaining computer systems. I worked in healthcare tech at one point and I remember back around 2016 we were still forced to support Internet Explorer for hospital systems that had simply nev
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by scruple 4y ago
I don't know if it's true today but once upon a time a AAA game studio everyone here has heard of had exactly these "developer secretary" roles on game teams. From what I understand it was extremely helpful and it also s
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by scruple 4y ago
> If I want to collect old VW busses and park them in the front yard, I don't care what effect this has on my neighbors property value. This is my home. If you don't want to deal with living near other people, move to the count
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by scruple 4y ago
I have a family of 5, so we have quite a few streaming services but I don't really use them. I might watch 2 hours in an average month. But Spotify? I broke 40,000 minutes last year, according to that Wrapped deal. I absolutely hate th
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by scruple 4y ago
One of my favorite experiences was programming for a TI MSP430 uC. My memory is that the reference documentation was outstanding, though that was true of all of the chips I worked with in embedded.
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by scruple 4y ago
Same experience here. It was extremely frustrating to realize that I have to play a game of whack-a-mole with my phone's settings to make the damned thing usable.
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by scruple 4y ago
I only have anecdotes but you're describing ~half of my aunts and uncles here. All retired, pushing into their 60s and 70s. The most extreme example being an uncle who was a PhD Chemist in automotive paints his entire career spent wit
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by scruple 4y ago
Exact same experience here. When I was in my early 20s. It derailed my life completely at the time but everything got back on track in a couple of years.
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by scruple 4y ago
Being a curmudgeon is an old-school approach to job security. I've experienced it a few times in my work life and career.
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by scruple 4y ago
> I was in another discussion on votes about top performers Good grief, that sounds horrible .
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by scruple 4y ago
> My tech lead insists I'm far too valuable to lose, and wouldn't be on the list for any future layoffs I've been told things like this in the past. Each time it triggered my Spidey-Sense. I've yet to get hit by a lay
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by scruple 4y ago
> everyone hired after date X In one case of layoffs this week, I know of people who were laid off that were in the first ~100 employees. I speculate that this specific layoff was purely financially motivated.
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by scruple 4y ago
> From a worker perspective, line and middle managers look like bosses. From an executive perspective, they look like workers. A former employer had layoffs this week. Of the people I knew who were laid off, at least 60% were management.
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by scruple 4y ago
Calculus Made Easy and Probability Through Problems. I'm not sure that I'd have gotten through either my university Calculus courses or Probability and Statistics without these two books. I used them as supplementary material to t
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by scruple 4y ago
Even if you do manage to find 2 hours to yourself, it's typically at the end of the day and you're utterly, completely exhausted. I've found that, with young kids in the mix, the best thing I can do with my hour-ish at the en
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by scruple 4y ago
That's interesting. I have a browser extension on my GitHub that added IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc., ratings and access to reviews to streaming services that I subscribe to. I doubt that could've been the basis of getting a job at
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by scruple 4y ago
The Ralphs near me, in SoCal, does. I was tired at the end of a long day of managing 3 sick kids and a sick wife. In my absent mindedness, I had 17 items in the 15 item self check out. I had to get a clerk to come over and authorize it for
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by scruple 4y ago
I see. I thought the rant was a mess, personally, so I stopped reading it. Theres some irony to be found in an unstructed rant about... structured editing. Anyway, if that's the point, then maybe tree-sitter can help us get there in th

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